Thank You!!

My final post for this school project and possibly this blog is currently being read by my viewers/followers. I want to thank you for putting up with both my venting through this blog and my probably annoying sports blogs to those who are not sports fans. I have decided I will probably begin a new blog, at a new url and it will be all about sports. I have said before earlier in blogs that I want to be a professional writer and have a coloumn in a newspaper all for sports and my opinion on current event topics in the sports world. That is my new step in writing, and will post a new url to this blog possibly if anyone is interest in keeping up with my opinion and chasing one of my dreams. Anyways, thank-you to everyone that reads these posts weekly, it is truly an honor. I wish no one but the best in todays daily life, and the questionable future facing us all. THANK-YOU

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Politics

So, round this time of year every 4 years, arguably and probably the biggest election for the United States is just around the corner in November. This election is for the next President of the United States, perhaps the biggest and most important job in the world. With all this going around it seems like you can not turn on the television without seeing a good amount of political campaigns and political coverage. We are being brainwashed into one candidate while the others are being brainwashed into another. This starts debates with your friends, and just is ignoring. My best friend Matt, whom if follow my blogs is the one I have been in restoring the barn with. Well anyways, I am not going to state with whom I support to not bring up any more arguments. But, Matt stands with the competitor of this man, and it just has been nonstop debates for the past few days. I am tire of it and do nt want to argue about it but every night he texts me trying to start a debate on it and it has been annoying. I am just ready for this political season to finish and get all these pretty pointless arguments in the past.


http://floydcountytimes.com/opinion/4874/cruz-vs-trump-comparing-their-tax-proposals

Finish Strong

My post this week is all about the end of the year, and finshng the course that is lying ahead. My goal at the end of this semester at Ivy Tech is too leave a year, and continue my college career at IUPUI. Unfortunately, for myself this semester has not matched my performance from last semester, I have last all drive for this semester compared to last. I have found a little bit of drive for this semester just within the past week, and have gotten every single one of my classes grades up pretty wellthis past month. I like many of my readers, and college students all over the country can smell the finish and the pool water waiting for us in the next two weeks. I feel like most recently has just been paper after paper, project after project all due at the same time, and makes for one hell of a time with no life. The thing keeping everyone going at this point is your future and the long break just around the corner. I wish all my fellow peers nothing but the best as you strive to finish strong. May the force be with you all, these next few days.


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I have noticed by now my weekly blogs are turning more and more into sports blogs. This is due to the one fact that my love for sports is basically my life, and I would love to professionally write about sports. My number one love of sports is the most beautiful game of basketball. I gave Peyton Manning an honor blog, and I have decided to give a legend in his own right the same "accomplishment." Kobe "Black Mamba" Bryant is a true legend of basketball, that might be the most overlooked of his generation. Kobe transformed the game, and might be the last of his kind in the game today. Kobe had that killer instinct where at any given time he turned into "Mamba Mode" almost at the flip of a switch where he decided to put the nail in the coffin of the opponents chances of victory. There is still plenty of talent in the league perhaps the most ever at once and all spread around. None compare to Kobe, he would take 30-40 shots a game, without any question. Ask him why and he without hesitation would tell you because he was the best on the court. Kobe was so honest with someone on his skills, he came off as a douche. He knew he was great, and to be honest everyone that faced him did too. Kobe was underrated throughout and should be considered one of the best to ever play.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/264339-5-reasons-kobe-bryant-will-be-the-goat

So, my fellow followers and/or readers. Most of you know by now me and my friends absolute love for Peyton Manning, as I have an appreciation blog for him from about two weeks ago. I came up with the idea, where hopefully we can every week for the next 18 years watch one game from Peyton's illustrious career and progress till his grand finale Super Bowl 50 win. So here is my open letter to Mr. Irsay asking for the game film, please share, and try to get this out to him:

"Dear, Mr. Irsay
    I know this is not the most ideal way to come in contact with you, but it is the quickest way I can with also hopefully getting a quick response.
  First off, I would like to express not only my gratitude, but for every fan around the country. To see Peyton Manning being honored as a member of the Indianapolis Colts this coming Friday at the team Complex. Myself and my buddy Matt, will be camping out Friday at the complex in attempt for an autograph, but more so just an attempt to see our icon from growing up in Indy the GOAT himself Peyton Manning. Fingers-Crossed on this idea, it can not hurt to at least attempt.
  The main reason I am writing you Mr. Irsay, is to ask for a favor. Myself and my buddy Matt want to start a tradition every Sunday starting next regular season to watch in chronological order week-by-week the career of Peyton "The Sheriff" Manning. So, this would be done by week 1 of the 2016 regular season watching Peyton's rookie debut, and week 2 watching Rookie year week 2. This will progress for 18 years as we watch the evolution of #18 career. I will have to find a way to contact Mr. Elway as well to get his Bronco years also. Sunday's just won't be the same without Manning on TV (At least in a uniform). He has been both our quarterbacks basically since birth. So we want to continue him being it for at least 18 more years.
   Mr. Irsay, I would like to say thank-you for not only your time in this letter, and hopeful response. But, your decision to honor the GOAT for all he has done for the Community of Indianapolis, and bringing the love of the game of football to not only myself, but fans around Indiana, and the United States. I say you even consider that #18 statue Bob Kravitz has written about. Thank-You for deciding to Congratulate the GOAT on a great career, and revitalization of the Colts Organization and making the "Horeshoe" logo recognizable to any true sports fan."


    Thank-You,
        Jordan Dean, and Matt Krivulka


http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2016/03/07/colts-honor-peyton-manning-indy/81445858/

My blog for this week is about myself beginning a new chapter in my life. I have worked at Outback Steakhouse, since February of 2015. My time at Outback has been one heck of a roller coaster ride. I have made so many friends there, that I am almost positive will last. Everyone all says this about theirs friends, but I honestly know these friends will last. My time at Outback has been great, I learned a lot and I mean a lot about what kind of worker I am. What I learned is that I have a type of relationship and love for money that can almost be unmatched. I would pick up shifts non stop and work longer just to pursue that extra tip money. Now, I move on and have received a job at Costco, a wholesale company being built on the Southside. The hourly pay of this job, is too much to decline at my age in life, as I look more towards growing up, and moving out of my families watchful eye. I am almost not certain if this is the right time to leave Outback, as I like it so much. But people make mistakes, and I am stepping away.

http://www.wthr.com/story/31758371/costco-coming-soon-to-greenwood

Peyton Manning

This weeks blog, I decided to write about a current event that really hits home to me. This is the retirement of the "Greatest Of All Time" Peyton Manning. Manning has been my favorite NFL player since I was born in 1996. I was born into the birth of football in the state of Indiana. Football I strongly believe would have not hit Indiana without the placement of Peyton Manning in the state and most importantly in the horseshoe and blue of the Colts organization. Peyton put football a special place in my heart, where I can honestly say I love football because of him. Peyton has been a role model in the state as well with the major payments he has given to Methodist hospital where it is now named after him, in gratitude. Peyton has been a role model and will continue to be as I continue to grow into the adult, I am becoming. Manning is the reason I played football in high school, from watching all his years in Indy and than to Denver. As Manning announced his retirement, a part of me felt lost. I do not know what the NFL will consist of with Peyton not under center every Sunday, and honestly I wish I would never find out, but unfortunately Father Time is undefeated. Peyton you will be deeply missed, and I want to say Thank-You for everything these past 18 wonderful roller-coaster years. 

http://www.wthr.com/story/31514294/the-colts-are-building-a-peyton-manning-statue-and-fans-wholeheartedly-approve

 

The Barn

This week I just want to keep my viewers (if any) on an update in my life. Currently the main thing going on in my life is the restoration of a barn we recently discovered. Well, it starts off with my church Southeast Baptist Tabernacle. The church recently just purchased a house and its large amount of property, from one of the neighbors. The man is growing old, and decided to sell his property to the church for a bargain of a price, while he spends his time now in a retirement home. The property includes the house, a large yard and at the back of the yard a two-story abandoned barn. The church bought the house as a way to shelter missionaries when they visit and give a nice play to stay. Well, there are currently no plans for the barn scheduled. So, myself and my best friend Matt went to the barn to take a look. It was beat-down about as far as it could go. We climbed to the upstairs and found a big room. The corners are a place not to stand with many holes, but the rest of the floor is dirty but in decent shape. If you look up on the wall there is an old basketball goal nailed to the wall. Shooting on the goal makes you feel like you play for the "Hickory" team from the famous sports movie, "Hoosiers." Matt and I have agreed to take the project on hands on and totally restore the upstairs into a decent basketball court, where the floor will hold up. This past Saturday we cleaned most of the floor up, where the vintage wood is being shown now. We now know what we working with in terms of repairing the floor. We planned to put some laminate down on the wood and make it look like a nice court. Much like "Airbud" found a secret basketball court, we did as well. The project will be hard but we have a vision, and will not stop till we get there.

 

 

 

 

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Pet Peeve

So, just recently I have experienced the absolute number one thing that totally pisses me off in my life. I work at the Outback Steakhouse in Greenwood, and have quiet a bit of friends that work there. It helps that the section in which I work (Togo) everyone is either my age or a year ahead or below of myself. With this being said pretty much all of us get along and have fun talking and sometimes hanging out outside of work. But, just recently this kid started working with us, and one of the chicks I talk to that works there will be having a normal funny conversation with me but as soon as this kid walks up, she will turn away and totally ignore me and the original conversation. I do not know why but this just has pissed me off, every time it has happened since this kid starting working there. She, does it because she feels he is good looking. This just really grinds my gears, and has really been on my mind a lot this past week. It happens all the time, and she knows it pisses me off that she does it, but she never recognizes till after that she did it, and then apologizes for so abruptly leaving the conversation.

 

 

 

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Welcome To My Life

Welcome to my life, I am Jordan Dean a 19 year old college student at Ivy Tech Community College. This blog was made by myself for my "Creative Writing" class.  My main objective for the blog is to follow the title of it: "A Day in Jordan's Life." I just want to at least once a week blog about a certain day in the week or maybe just the highlight's of my past week or just the things that I remember.

For now I just want to give you as the reader a little more insight into my life, from my childhood dreams, and growing up, as to where I am now.

Well to start I born on December 9th 1996, to the Dean household of at the time 3 family members: My father Kenny, my mother Lori, and my sister Courtney. I was born very premature and spent most my time in the hospital till December 24th when I was allowed to be sent home. Talk about on HELL of a Christmas gift for the family. Later on in January of 1998 by first brother was born named Caleb. Than to follow multiple years later in 2004 the last child was born my little little brother Hunter.

I grew up in a Baptist church and most of my younger years was spent in a Baptist school as well. I went to a little school "Suburban Christian School" till 5th grade, and that is when I switched to a Center Grove Community school for the 5th grade year. After, 5th grade I switched back to the Christian School for grades 6-7th. Then finally, I switched back to Center Grove school to finish my schooling between 8th grade all the way to my senior year.

The final thing I feel you really need to know about myself, to really know me, is that I have a huge love for sports. Sports has really seemed to always be there for me throughout my years, something i love to both watch and play. My sports careers had a lot upsides and than a hard down fall as I progressed and ultimately aged. It started off in seventh grade while I was still attending the Christian school. I played basketball that year of my life, and basketball is also arguably my favorite sport, just barely ahead of football. This year for my seventh grade team I took home the MVP trophy on the season. Not a huge accomplishment the team was terrible, but I did have good averages on basically all of my stats. My biggest accomplishment was hitting a buzzer beating three point shot to win the game. Now, fast forward to my high school days I dropped the sneakers, and picked up the cleats. I had never played football before, and for Center Grove it was one of the hardest things I have mentally and physically had to stay up with. I lost 60lbs going into my freshman year from all the conditioning, but something that needed to have happened. I started gaining more and more playing time, until finally my junior year I sprained my MCL in practice right to the point of tearing. I sat out only 2 practices, when you need around half a year of recovery time. Due, to this fact my knee never really fully healed and took it's toll on my senior year, and just how much I could honestly 100% preform. That is how my legit career went with 4 straight semi-state losses in football. I now spend my time playing pick up basketball games, close to everyday at a local gym. Than play as much football as I can, with my knee feeling fully good to go now that it's not under daily football stress. Although, these football games are harder to come into contact with and playing all the time.

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Also, in terms of professional and collegiate sports, I follow basketball and football very passionately. In the NBA I am a big fan of the Cavaliers, and love watching Stephen Curry do his thing on the court, as well as Lebron James, and Blake Griffin. In terms of collegiate basketball I follow the hometown Indiana Hoosiers, but also keep a look out on the North Carolina Tar Heels. Than finally for the NFL, I used to be a Indianapolis Colts fan, but have quit that since the departure of Peyton Manning, and will be all things #BroncoCountry for the long-term future. College football love the Oregon Ducks, and their fast pace those players out west play at.

My dream is to ultimately leave Ivy Tech college at the first chance, and transfer to IUPUI to further my education into becoming an Physical Education teacher, as well as either or both a basketball or football coach. My dream is to coach to where a young athlete will become a State Champion. I want to see the daily grind in young athletes that I saw in myself, and do everything I possibly can to get all of them to reach their potential and fulfill their dreams, while I have them as my players. Something I know I will never be able to take advantage of.

That is me and everything I think you should know about myself. Hope you find these blogs interesting and Hilarious, as you get a chance to see my life and my stupid that follows me. If any questions feel free to email me anytime, I'll make sure to get back to them.